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THR 12

Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor

Villy Tsakona

This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end, an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which are relevant to the production and reception of humor, and hence to its... full description

July 2024. xi, 264 pp.

SCL 115

Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness

Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures

Stefan Th. Gries

This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures the field has been relying on for decades: frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness. The book first discusses the purpose of these measures and how they have been measured. Then, the book makes three main proposals:... full description

July 2024. vii, 321 pp.

BPA 18

Language Acquisition in Romance Languages

Edited by Vicenç Torrens

The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and untimed, transcriptions... full description

July 2024. viii, 308 pp.

CHLEL XXXIV

Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond

A millennium heritage

Edited by Francesco Stella

The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new... full description

July 2024. xviii, 706 pp.

SLCS 235

Predication in African Languages

Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh

This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal complexes and verb... full description

July 2024. xi, 344 pp.

SCL 116

Textbook English

A multi-dimensional approach

Elen Le Foll

This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine linguistic variation both... full description

July 2024. xix, 294 pp.